Dr. Chen Friedberg

Dr. Chen Friedberg has co-written many papers published by the Israel Democracy Institute. Among them are Legislative Oversight of the Executive Branch in Israel: Current Status and Proposed Reform (2009); How Can We Repair Israel’s Political System? Key Recommendations (2013); and Voter Turnout in Israeli General Elections (2015). Dr. Friedberg is a faculty member of the Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science Department at Ariel University.

Areas of expertise:

The Knesset; parliaments around the world (with focus on parliamentary oversight and legislation); women in politics; systems of government; elections.

Recent Publication

The danger of a weak opposition should not be underestimated. This situation harms most of all those populations who are not represented in government, and even harms the functioning of the government itself, which is not subjected to real criticism

Israel's 20th Knesset will have 39 new members. Will this infusion of new blood improve the Knesset's performance? Dr. Chen Friedberg explores some of the issues that may impede the ability of these new Knesset members to "clean up" the Knesset.

IDI Researcher Dr. Chen Friedberg warns that the government's prolonged inability to appoint a permanent head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee may be causing serious harm to the very foundations of Israeli democracy.